A Chrome bug lets you record streaming movies, your favorite Windows program is back as an app, YouTube is now live on mobile, Facebook tackles its political bias, and the man who married his smartphone.

Google Chrome Enables Movie Piracy

Two security researchers have discovered a way of recording video streams playing through Google Chrome, which has the potential to turn Google’s web browser into a pirate’s wet dream. Google has been made aware of the issue, but hasn’t yet issued a patch fixing the flaw.

The problem stems from Google’s use of Widevine, the digital rights management (DRM) system which has been implemented into Chrome. Widevine decrypts encrypted video for playback within Chrome, but this vulnerability lets users hijack the stream and save it for posterity.

However, Google seems to be suggesting that as any web browser based on Chromium will suffer the same flaw, it may not be worth fixing this one. Which could spell disaster for the likes of Netflix and Amazon Prime, both of which could have their catalogs ripped off overnight.

It’s safe to assume this is only the beginning, and Microsoft must be planning to convert a host of other classic Win32 programs into apps. The company will also be hoping other developers do the same, bridging the gap between the old and the new iterations of Windows.

YouTube Goes Live on Mobile

YouTube is finally catching up with the likes of Periscope16 Periscope Tricks You Should Try Right Now16 Periscope Tricks You Should Try Right NowIt's easy to think of live-streaming apps like Periscope as simple press-the-button-and-stream processes, but a lot goes into getting noticed by the audience and making the result worth watching.Read More and Facebook Live by bringing live streaming to mobile devices. YouTube has been offering live streaming video since 2011, but it has taken a piecemeal approach, focusing on large events and browser-based streaming. But no longer.

“YouTube mobile live streaming will be baked right into the core YouTube mobile app. You won’t need to open anything else, just hit the big red capture button right there in the corner, take or select a photo to use as a thumbnail, and you can broadcast live to your fans and chat in near real time.”

According to The Daily Signal, Sandberg announced this move during an event at the American Enterprise Institute, saying:

“We have a managing bias class that all of our leaders and a lot of our employees have taken that I was part of helping to create. And we focused on racial bias, age bias, gender bias, national bias, and we’re going to add in a scenario now on political bias.”

“So as we think about helping people understand different points of view and being open to different points of view, we’re dealing with political bias as well going forward.”

The “wedding” took place in The Little Vegas Chapel in Las Vegas, but isn’t legally recognized in Nevada. So, while Chervenak has made a commitment to his smartphone, he cannot refer to it as his wife. Still, at least that makes divorce easier when the new model launches next year. [H/T Kaspersky]

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